The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We Are of opinion that some good (and no pio hable harm) may be effected by a publication of the address of the Irish Catholics to the people of Eng land, voted at the commencement of the Session, and recommending to their fellow-subjects here, a calm and kindly review of the arguments by which the great question of emancipation would obtain from any rea sonabh, mind a decision in favour of our excluded brethren; It would not be fair to say that this docu ment has convinced us. It has, in fact, added no thing to our conviction, which as far as regards the policy of the quesiton, was complete upon the subject many years ago ; but there is enough to touch any heart not wholly void of frankness or humanity— not hardened by, incurable obduracy—in a complaint by at least five millions of men, that they are debarred 1 of those , advantages,. honours, and enjoyments, which all the other subjeets , of the same free Christian realm hold dear—of that protection from injustice which is of all others the most solid,—of that stimulus to loyalty and patriotism which is in its nature the , most powerful— of thaCconseinusness which best supports the dignity of a freemart-- , and of that sympathy with their polittcal brethren, which constitutes the real strength of States, the true principles of stability in their greatness, and the re deeming property which raises them from transient humi liation and suffering. This appeal, we can say conscien tiously, is expressed with much temper, and enforced with equal vigour and good tense. No friend of emancipation need blush to employ such an instrument for making con verts to an honest cause, nor any sober-minded anti-Ca tholic to he converted by it.—Times. The who of the blow which has been struck in England vs now fully reverberated from Paris. The journals of that capital describe .our proceedings with respect to Portugal, repeat our arguments and °hater- Vigil:MS, set 'forth our reasons ; and we are happy to observe, rather support and enforce, than crimbat or decry' the propriety of our conduct. This, therefore,' is well. It is fortifying to the human mind, to ob serve .that honourable men of all countries and inte rests agree, in the general principles of right and wrong. Im an article from Spain, under the head of Vittoria, It is stated that the Government of that coun try begin to be alarmed at the consequences of their own aggression upon Portugal. It is time they should he alarmed ! and it is thought that the Captains-Ge neral' of the provinces bordering on Portugal, who have fostered. the refugees, and arranged their return to their native country in the character 'of invading army—that Generals Longa, Eguia, and others, will be sacrificed. No doubt of it. They ought to he sacrificed. The agents and instruments of, an infa mous Governmewought always to be sacrificed by those who employ them, that man in elevated stations may learn independence of character. it was the curse of the late tyranny in Prance, that Buonaparte always four id men of talents ready to execute his unjust deerees. Sacri fice such men ! we say, sacrifice them always when you can get hold of them ; or, above all, force their very em ployers to sacrifice them, in order to teach the whole race that it is ultimately more dangerous to desert their duty than to disobey the will of the tyrant.—We recommend Our letter from Paris to general perusal, as representing the various opinions in that capital upon the recent events in this ,country—fbid. Mr. Canning's present situation as a 'Statesman is involved, in more respects than one, in some appa rent degree of paradox. To say nothing of the seem ing inconsistency of being at war with Catholics in one ount g,: and with their opponents in another, we would only compare the llight Him. Gentleman's cirly public career, and his avowed and most known predilections, with the hints now thrown out, if we cannot actually sty the doctrines avowed, in his l a t e speech:. If there was any man in Europe, not ex cepting even . Mr: Pitt himself, more opposed than another to the principle avowed 'by the French Direc tortat'the earlier period of its Revolution, of inter ference with the Governments of other States—if there was any one maw to whose ears more than to those of any other the very name of Jacobin, and even of' It sounded more odious, Mr. Canning waS that person. 1 - 161 very schoolboy efforts were devoted to the cause ; and, the anti-'4acohin school itself; with all its powerful and expensive consequences, hails Mr. Canning as its founder. Yet, strange to Fay, we now live toi see the same person adopting pretty obviously some of the very same principles lie has so long end so earnestly opposed—threatening the Governments of Europe with the very *tie kind of interference which the French Directory were denounced for entertain ing': :and as -a striking proof that we do not mistake the matter, we see Mr. Canning, and his measures and principles, applauded almost to an acme of nauseous satiety, by the very persons who have here tofore writhed under the lash of the Right Hon ourable Gentleman's keen and castigating elo quence. This one eircumstance alone should, we think,• lead Mr. Canning to pause, and doubt the. correctness of his own new principles, that they brine along with them crinverte, whose approba tion only, a very few ,years ago, it would have been the last. object of his ambition, as of his expectation, to acquire. But apart from this view of the matter, there are those who consider the course which Mr. Canning and the rest of the Ministry are tinwp tirim . ing, as :um instance of that kind of policy (of butt, we were very near saying), which statesmen not nuke nuently. adopt to drew off' the attention of the public from great and unavertable evils, If this. be the po licy of dovernment upon this occasion, it is of that crafty, Machiavelian kind, the result of which can only at last call 'lntek men's attention to greater evils than those from which it may, fora time, divert them. It is much Of thesame description as if a maim in pri vate life, beset with cares, anxieties, and incumbrances, were to thirdcof-fosing Sight of them by plunging in some new species Of .extravarance and excess, which in ; th e , end roust postpone, ti* not render extrication i mposs ibl e .. BLit We: shall ,be told : that we are coun selling dishonour- to the country t anti that the faith of Treaties requires ail and is now doing. We value national honour much too highly to wish or consent to see it violated in the smallest lota, But We think, in the Saline tiffie, that there. is a limit to the faith at `Empties ; 4 ext a t t rif ti ts , and that it is not necessary, w t i f t , h a t h o e: fl a n n e l upon try to furnish an ally that we - should adopt hit quarrel, in its full extent, worm own, and involve 'ourselves over head and ears in W h o but little concerns pis. If a Spanish war were desirable, we had perique! objects enough which would have ius tifiatl it. The non-payment of debts 16 long dive tc, Yuri , fish merchants, the inowliquidation of past 9pOnAtIOTI6 nothingo the tion-acii9iowledgment of her public debt—might all have been put: forward as plausible, if not convincing reasons for reprisals upon , kipanith properly arid that ye should evineceo much prudence, forbearance, and self-deniet, 'in our own concerns,- while we rushlike madmen bittiati adoption of the interests of others, is-ona of_those anomalies which the subtlety of , politicians may evisin, and the eloquence of Mr. Canning. gloss over, but which 'common cerise awl reason can neither . stinetion nor understand. We fear, too, that Mr. Canning is inspired by the pursuit of that which in the end will turn out to be a mere chimera; for to expect to see the establish ment of liberty, or of liberal principles, in any country where Priests bearsway, is as wild and unattainable, as to expect that ice will malt in a region of perpetual frost.— Morning Herald. We have,ieceiVed.severgl comm u nications, in answer to &letter signed o Impartiality," in the Chronicle of yesterday. We have not now space or time to enter on an investigation of the principles which ought to govern pUnishment. There is no subject, hoWever, of more importance, or which seems yet so imperfectly understood in this country. Indiscriminate severity in the law, as is well known, fails in its. object, ,because, in the present day, the feelings of society will not allow the law to be carried into effect. In fact, capital . pu nishments can only be obtained in the case of crimes which excite the detestation of society. With respect to the cases against which *capital punishments are in general awarded by law in this country, the crimi nals know well enough,. that, in 19 cases out of 20, these 'punishments will not be carried into effect. In fact, the circumstance which determines whether the law shall or shall not he carried into effect, is altoge ther accidental. lf, for instance, a man has the good luck to be the only horse-stealer tried at an assize, he will be recommended for mercy by the Judge. But if it so happen, that he has the misfortune to have imitators and the Judge is alarmed by the growth of cases of horse-stealing, he flies out in a passion, and exclaimi, this will never do ; the law must be carried into effect, we must make an example of these horse-stealers.-- And so it is with most other crimes capitally pu nished by law. The law is always, in reality, ex posl ,facto, The punishment is , determined by cir cumstances unconnected with the particular case— such, as the acc idental circumstance of the subsequent flowing of crime in the same direction. If one cow is stolen, the thief will be sent to Botany Bay ; but if three or four are stolen, the Judge and society fly out into a rage with the offenders. Our whole Criminal Jurisprudence is of this ricketty character. 'No prin ciples are adhered to ; all is passion and caprice ; the good or bad digestion' of the Judge ; the strength of his nerves will decide the fate of the culprit. The whole reminds one of what takes place in some ill governed families of the lower Orders. Children are allowed to run into all manner of improprieties, from the impunity with which they can commit them. All at once, however, in a fit of ill-humour, the brawling mother lays about among them, kicking , one, cuffing another, and strapping a third, and raising a clamour by which the whole neighbourhood is th rown into alarm. Punishments should not be indiscriminate, but suited to the nature of the crime. They shouldaiways, how ever, be certain. Uncertainty is the greatest of all evils ; for we all know the strength of the confidence which we have' in our particular luck. If one man in three, found guilty, is only executed, all the three will confide in their fortune. Even the soldier. who mounts the breach, conceives he shall escape. It was ob served by the famous Lord Peterborough, that few meti would face danger, if they did not trust to the chance of an escape. Thieves, as well as soldiers, rely on fortune. But the misfortune is in this country, that our capital punishments are only operative in the case , of murder, because then the criminal knows he cannot es rape. In all other cases he flatters himself with the chance of escaping. On the other hand, our secondary punish ments are disregarded, if not rather coveted. A strong feeling of honour alone in the present (lay can induce a la bouring man, in roost parts of England, to wish to remain unpunished. The condition of the convicts in the Hulks, and at Botany Hay, is superior to that of the greatest part of the labouring population. Even the attorneys at. Botany ' Bay (and we understand that that Colony, from the ex tent to which the organization of perjury has been car. tied there under the auspices of the Learned Profession, is anxious that some of our other Colonies should re ceive part of the sapply), find themselves as comfort able there as in the mother country. When thousands on thousands are petitionihg to be banished from their native country, transportation cannot be an operative punislunent. short our whole System loudly demands revision. These observations will render it un necessary for us to consider more particlarly the argu menus to which the case of Amelia Roberts has led. We, fur our parts, do not see the connection between chivalry and . Ifermi law. The question is, ought the law to make any distinction between the sexes in awarding punishment ? We say, distinctly, no. If it be improper to hang a female it is improper to hang a male—but if it be proper to hang a male, it cannot he im proper, in the same circumstances, to hangs female. We therefore do not approve of the distinction made by our Reporter, founded merely on the peculiarity of sex. We know of no distinction between the sexes, except what is physical. Women are as capable of distinguishing be tween right and wrong as men are. We do not say by this, that stealing in a dwelling-house, in violation' of trust, though a heinous crime, ought to be punished with death; but merely, that if this crime be punished with death, the distinction set up on the mere ground of sex is mawkish. —/lh».ning Chronicle. At length we may be said to have gained a little breathing time, after the helter-skelter proceedings of the last week ; and we seem to be gradually returning to the point from which we set out. Vague and utr defined alarm is yielding to rational calculations, and we are able to examine leisurely the bugbears which have been frightening us. The panic has passed away —the Bulls 410 Bears (~ we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us)," are reposing, after their furious chase of each other ; the Stack Exchange has been absolutely rumourless for upwards of eight And forty hours, and the voice of common sense stands a chance. of being beard. How long this calm may continue, it is beyond our prescience to declare ; and we seize, therefore, the auspicious moment, while it is iu our power to do so, to cast our tubule upon the past and the future. From the first, we did not range ourselves on the side of the alarmists, but laboured rather to fix public attention steadily and tranquilly upon the real features of the question. We hail not, like one of our contemporaries, a theory fry each day ; alternately sounding a charge, and beating a retreat ; war and peace, peace and war, diversifying our columns with the unnerring regularity of the they tem on a chess board. In not adopting this course, we have not, per haps, accommodated ourselves so adroitly as might have been done to the varying appetite of the multi• tide for soMething t , to elevate and surprise;" but it is a dexterity 'in which we are net over ambitious to excel. We gated originally, that the first oh- jeer of the measures so promptly and efficiently resolved upon by his Majesty s Government ,was peace, not war.—They intended to stew what we were prepared to do ; as the likeliest means of avoiding the neeessity of doing that for which we were thus prepared. We 'Mewed that there had been a positive infraction of neutrality tin the part of Spain towards Portugal, our alJy ;anal Ow we wore, in consequence, called upon no lesa by the solemn obligations of public faith, than by the dictates of the soundest policy, to follow up uoavailing remonstrances by energetic acts. But, bias "JO 49 these arts were to he directed against Spain— and As SPaini B fpurateit from France, was just as capable of invading the moon, as contending single hood,' ag ainst England, vet : argue d, not very illogically we apprehend, that war was a remote, and hardly A pt4sibJe, contingency. There was, we grant, a preliminary; consideration, be disposed before arriving 'at '• that conehition,-. separated from' 'France e Or were there`jost ' dtinc tor supposing that the former had been throughout oily the secret instrument of the hitter, and that conseq►iently, in .throWing down the gauntlet to Spain, we hatl to buckle on our armour against France ? For a day or two, these questions, it must fairly be conceded, justified the most se rious. doubts ; but from the moment , the speech of his - most Christian Majesty to the two Chambers reached this country, those doubts were at an end. "if there be faith in words," we observed, in . our first observations upon it, this day wee& " France must use.the power she has in her hands, to restrain Ferdinand from the course he is pursu ing." " The French Monarch," we also remarked, "has pledged himself to two things—his own sincere desire that peace should be maintained—and his, co-operation with his allies to.prevent its interruption in the only quarter where it is threatened." This was our view of Charles's speech to the Chambers ; but there were those who read it as a most menacing and warlik doeument. : It is true they were not very stubborn in their opinions,. for they soon veered round, and discovered, as we had done, that this same speech was teeming „With peace and good will. At the present moment, we believe, there is an entire unanimity of sentiment upon the subject.— We should not suppose there is any one, capable of exer cising a sound judgment with respect to this question, who seriously anticipates that the pacific relations between this country, France, and Spain, are in the slightest danger of It is a fact, no longer doubtful or disputed, that France is determined to co-operate with us, •in re straining Ferdinand from further aggressions upon Portugal ; that she has already acted, in a most decisive manner, upon ►hat determination ; and that she is prepared to Our sue it, to the fullest extent'which the exigency of the ,case may require. We know these things to be so; and, there fires we assert them without q►►alification. The result is at once foreseen, Ferdinand, admonished by France, as to consequences at which he must tremble—constNuences :in volved in the declared hostility of England—will find him self compelled to renounce his insane projects, and the peace of Europe wilt finally be consolidated by that very course of events which appeared, to saperticial or in terested politicians, as the precursor of inevitable war.— Neu/ Times. GAMING IN HIGH LIFE. (From the Times.) • Six—Although it is peculiarly repugnant to my feelings to permit my name to appear in any correspondence of a controver sial nature, still I cannot allow a statement which was published in the Observer of yesterday to pass unnoticed. It is signed " Simon M'Oillivray." On the 14th instant this gentleman suldressed a letter to me, in which he states, "Mr. Ellice writes me that he has applied to you to take some public notice of a pa ragraph in a Newspaper of last Sunday, purporting to take the li berty of inquiring whether' it ii your intention to do so, and in what manner ?" In reply I informed Mr. AlgGillicray that I had not received from Mr. Ellice the letter to which he alluded, nor slid I expect any such application front that gentleman, as he was fully aware from my assurances to him, that I never permitted any copy or extract of his letter to be taken or published. explained to hint, in detail; the course which Mr. Ellice took to give complete publicity to his letter to me, which I fully but er roneously supposed would have satisfied him, and prevented all necessity for introducing my name into Mr. IWGillivray'S publi cation of yesterday. In order to protect myself against the sus picion of having employed Mr. Ellice's letter in 4 manner con trary to his wishes (the only inference which could he drawn from Mr. M'Oillivray's publication now before me), I think it advisable to state, that on the 27th November I received the let ter in question front Mr. Ellice, containing the report of an opi nion, given by Messrs. Gurney and Chitty. on a case founded on Mr., Auldjo's statement, which opinion was highly favourable to the Marquis of Clanriearde and the Earl of Hotyth ; hut al. though Mr. Ellice expressed himself happy at being tittle to make such a satisfactory communication to me, still he conceived it necessary to add the followfog postscript to his letter, which must have precluded nil front making any other than a very li united twe'of it P.B. Of courst this letter must not be pub lished in any way, but ran save no objection to your stating the opinion of Citirney VI C - Chitty, on toy anthority, where you think it necessary." OH a perusal of this restriction, I felt regret and embarrassMent, from which, however, I was speedily relieved, when I ascertained that the very Post which brought me this letter, conveyed an authentic copy of it front Mr. Ellice to the confidential law-adviser of Lords Clanricarde and Howth, omitting altogether the restrictive postcript, and thus leaving the parties concerned at full liberty to make what use they pleased of it. The natural consequence was, that the most unrestrained publicity was given to this document, hundreds of copies were li thographed, and several were circulated. I viewed this official communication of the copy of Mr. El lice's letter as a very' considerate expeslient on fbe part of that gentleman to release me front all trouble and responsibility on this delicate subject. I hastened to express my acknowledgments to hitt for the course which he bad adopted, and I frankly apprised him of the use which (in consequence of his own unrestriqesl communication of the letter in another quarter) had so naturally been made of it, assuring him at the same time that I, at least, had ecrupulously,adhered to the reserve which he had imposed upon me. On the 15th inst. another letter reached me from Mr. McGilli vray, in which he ,remarks--"I must confess my surprise that you have not received any application from Mr. Ellice, because, under date of the 12th inst. he *rites me, ' I have written to Mr. Prendergast to desire lie will take some public means of con tradicting the paragraph in the Sunday Paper, or at least of stating that any extract of our correspondence was not made by his authority." Mr. M'Clillivray then adds—" Agreeably to your request, I enclose a copy of the paragraph in question," which, to that moment, I had not even seen. Being particu larly anxious that my name 'should not •be dragged before the public on this subject, I sent an immediate reply to this letter. 1 repeated my, assurances that I hail nut rece i ved any applicatiou from Mr. Ellice, and that I bad never gi ven a gory or an extract of that gentleman' s lett e r to any pers on ; and enclosed a note from Lord Clanricarde to me, in 'which his Lordship stated that he had obtained from another source (but not from me) a copy of Mr. Ellice's letter. With such conclusive explanations before him, it is quite clear that Mr. McGillivray could hardly have been so entirely ignorant of the. real and only source from which the notoriety given .to Mr. Ellice's letter proceeded, as is assumed in his publication of yesterday : the more so, as it is atticeptible of proof, that it was through the mediumof Mr. McGillivray himself that the authentic copy of Mr. Ellice's letter, above referred to, passed into the hands of the legal advisor of Lords Clanricarde and Ilowth. Respecting that letter, I must take leave to observe, that I stood in the pecu liar situation of being the Only person precluded from dealing with a.thwumeut (my exclusive prnpekly) with the same degree of free dom us the rest of the world exercised raiding it. - From the foregoing remarks, it is quite evident that to Mr. Ellice and Mr. AlcGillivray bel ongs t h e mer i t o f h av i ng g i ven to Lords Clanricarde and north the unrestrained benefit of Messrs. • Gurney's and Chitty's exculpatory opinion, and of having thus en abled them to render it public. cannot dismiss this subject without observing, that from the studied and suspicious inaccuracy of the supposed extract from 'Mr. Ellice's letter which appeared in a Sunday Paper of the 10th instant, and which is again incorporated in Mr. McGillivray's publication in the. Observer of yesterday, it is quite manifest that the inventor of it could have been actuated by no other, than ma licious.feelings towards the Noblemen 'in question. It could not have been published by any of their Lordships' friends, all of whom (thanks-to the communication made by Mr. Elliceand Mr. McGil livray) had been put into full and free possession of authentic copies of Mr. Ellice's letter to me ; and therefore the fair inference is, that this spurious paragraph waft manufactured by some person determined, at all events, to create an opportunity of conveying false and malevolent insinuations to the public. I have-the honour to he, Sir, Your most faithful and obedient Servant, Id, Clarges-street, Dee. 18. M. G. PRENDERGAST. p. S. I omitted to remark In the above statement, which ap pearl, in the Times of thin morning, that although Mr. Ellice's Report of Messrs. Gurney's and Chitty's opinion. (which lalone am restricted from 9wdiny) differs in the wording of it from the fabrieated extract in the Observer of Sunday lot, still the s u ir• stance of this Report is at least as favourable to the Noble persons in question, and , I will add, altogether as "unqualified" in its exculpatory expressions, as the contents of the incorrect extract, now republished and objected to by Mr: 'Whatever difference exists between the•wnrcling of Mr. Ellice's Repo r t, and of Mr. Al'OillivraY'v , Present, view-of the opinions referred to, I must leave for explanation between those gentlemen—" the friends who originally give the opinions upon which Mr. Auhljo's proceedings have been fowled," LAW INTELLIGENCE, VICE.CHANCELLOWS COURT, DRC. PO. BRUCE V. ALLEN AR!) WHIRS. • - This cause, in which the plaintiff, on a former dayvapplied personally to the. Court, came on .again to-day. The plaintiff is a bankrupt, and seeks to prosecute a suit for specific performance, instituted against the defendant prior to his insolveney. By the operation of law, all suits and actions in the event of bankruptcy become vested in the assignees, to prosecute or not as they may think fit. The assignees of the plaintiff, in the present case, d e . dined to prosecute the suit, whereupon Mr. Bruce applied for permission to carry it on himself, on the ground of collusigi be tween his assignees and the defendant. Ills Honoun granted -.the permission sought, upon .condition that the plaintiff should go before the Master, and give security for compliance with the orders of the Court, and payment of the costs, should the Court award them to the defendants. COURT OF COMMON, PLEAS, GUILDHALL, Disc. 20. JOINT-STOCK COMPANINS.:-HARAIII AND •ANOTHER •V. PtRRINt3. This was an action for work and labour done, and money had and received on account of the plaintiffs. The demand in ques tion arose out of the insertion . in the newspapers of sundry adver tisements relating to certain Joint-Stock companies, of which the defendant was a Director. The sum claimed was about SSW. Verdict for the plaintiff-99/. 9s. 6d. ROLLS 'COURT, Wit uwESDAY, Ore. 20. His HONOUR sat in the evening upon petitions. D'UrVIET.I) V. XLIVIS. PEPYS and. Mr. GIROLtiiTONE opened the case of the petitioner, Mr. Abraham Chambers,- of -Bond-street. As Mr. Girdisitone was proceeding at some length, Mr. Horne and Mr. Sugden interrupted him, to mention to his Honour tbat, as the case was likely to occupy a considerable time, the gentlemen be hind were anxious to know if his Honour would take other peti tions this evening. The ArASTER of the RoLts—The Court hao sometimes sat at live o'clock in the evening. I will, if not inconvenient to the Bar, sit to morrow evening at that hour. I state this for the consideration of g ent l emen. - . . . Mr; SUGDENLI AM at present in ill health, but dim will be no necessity for my attendance it five, as the other gentlemen can proceed. The MAsTre of the Rot.ts—l will proceed with this case until ten o'clock, and after that I will sit half an hour to take petitions that are not opposed, and we will go on with this peti• tion at six o'clock to-morrow evening. _ _ . Mr. GIRDLXSTONE—As it now Wants Only fire minutes to tea, perhaps I hat better atop now. Hie HONOUR assented, and" immediately went into unopposed petitions. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Among the applications for relief to the Lord Mayor was a Manchester calico-printer ; he wished to be passed home to his parish at Manchester. , He stated that he had gone on the Continent for-work, and had been employed for some time, but calico-printing was extremely Clack there. He had travelled through the Netherlands, but could get nothing to do. He had managed to get over to London, but had sot means now to get back to Manchester. The Loan MAYOR could not give the applicant the pass he requested, and referred him to the officers of the parish where he last slept. GUILDHALL.— Thomas Williams, the porter, at the Black Lion Inn, Water-lane, Fleet-street, appeared before Mr. Alder man Woon yesterday, to answer the complaint of a Mr. Barron, of Higbgate-hill, for overcharging the porterage of a parcel, and for misbehaviour, in carrying a parcel to the Camden Town er rand cart, which was especially directed to be forwarded to High gate, by a particular conveyance. Mr. Alderman WOOD should dismiss,the complaint for not be ing made within 14 days ; the parcel wai delivered on the 30th of November. The imposition was shameful, and he advised Mr. Barron nut to have Any more parcels brought by that coach. HAT,TON-G A RDEN. —Ctra RACTICRISTIC ROBBIE . RII. —Yes ter* William Pluck Rase, a journeyman tailor, was put to the bar,; charged w►th stealing a fat goose, value six shillings and six pence from the shop of John Simes, a poulterer, residing in Lamb's Conduit-passage. lob. Roans asked the tailor what he had to say to the charge. Pluck said it wawa impossible tor the poulterer to know who took the goose, as the night was foggy. Mr. llot:s:as told the tailor he was aggravating the .:Barge, and the less he talked about the goose the better. 'the poulterer supposed the tailor waniril Christmas dinner. Pluck denied it, and said he never wanted a g o w e f u r an occasion. Mr. Roolas said, it W3S no matter what the tailor intended to till with the goose, the felony . was proved, and the tailor should he tent to Newgate. The poulterer wished to know if he should he obliged to pro duce the goose at the trial; for, if so, he would lose an opportu nity of selling it in the mean time. The Magistrate tutid, it was not necessary to produce any pe rishable commodity. The tailor was then sent to prison, and the poulterer got his goose. • QUEEN-SQITARE.—Amonget the disorderlies yesterday morning was a respeetable4ooking gentleman, who gwve his ad drew; Mr. Francis Burrows, No. 16, London -street, Fitzroy-square, charged by a watchman with being drunk. Mr. W#ITX.—You must pay 5.. for being drunk. Mr. Burrows.—l wish to ask you, Sir, if lamto be hauled into the blackhole by main force. Mr. WKlTlC,;...eitrtainly, If yen are iii orderly. Mr. Burrows (turning to the watchman).--There gentlemen, you are to do as you like you see. The ss. was paid, and Mr. Burrows left the office grumbling. Gnosp.—lt would seem, from an appli cation made to the presiding Magistrate of this office, (It, J. CHAMSERS, Esq.) that a ghost; or rather a mischievous person hitherto unknown, has been annoying a family named Bedington, residing near the Chapel, in the Wandsworth-road. A gentleman named Irwin, who lived at Claremont Cottage, on the Wandsworth road, presented himself before Mr, Chambers for the purpose of having his Opinion in what way the mischievous individual was to be detected. Some time ago • Mr. Irwin con verted a coach-house on his premises, into a dwelling-house, which be let to a laundress, and her husband, named Beckington, who bad a family of children; and, being in circumstances to keep a servant, they hired one from the country, wham they recently dis charged; and this female, there was reason for believing, was in some way or other accessory to the annoyance. Beckington, a coach man to a highly respectable family in the neighbourhood, hired another servant, and since her entrance in his dwelling, noires were continually heard every night, such as ringing of bells, knocking against the walls, rattling of windows, which so alarm ed the girl and Beckington'e family, that they knew not how to act, having in vain endeavoured to discover by whom the noises were occasioned. So ingeniously were the tricks (if trick, they were) contrived, that although a watchman was stationed at the Booty the house-hell, which was connected - with it, would ring in his presence. It was only on Monday night that, as the children were going to bed, attended by the servant, they were frightened by a thumping on the, wall ; their parents ran, and the noise ceased for a while, but presently commenced again. Mr. Irwin, anxious that his tenants should not be annoyed, resolved upon seeing the Magistrate, and requesting his advice. Mr. Coast➢one having heard the story, smiled, and said that he would send an officer down,: if Mr. Irwin pleased ; but in all probability the ghost would not exhibit his tricks as soon as the officer was known to he in waiting. Iris Worship then put some q i‘ t i t r e . stio ru nl n re r s e p t e a tit e i d ng th tl a te t seza b n e t l m ori a g id ed an t d o haedreccoenntr family, to aru ss i •h h ic asa h been accosted in a rough manner by a strange man more than once. The Magistrate told Mr. Irwin that if the girl thought thatlis neigh should he granted. t P r m ea p tet er l t h o et h ., ay s e lle a ban! only is t s o ll i e tr d ese a n ga t ilntesit.setilifeafteltilotewntv:cleo, had dnd thus e s bou l r l s r. n l li rw gh i t n n t ( h )t e 4 n e ret m i si tl e d„ a cmqfltet'ineteildwesssltithitghaisi'aorlication. ravages nli t ia.s o sunt iron t o h tgr e t:ho l p: l: afia li rtinu r ed m td: : : r ti fayi unless y: a s.,h ff ites o mo r emo d onneg a : LEITIL—The fever which has raged fur such a length of time in this place, still continues to spread its malignant effects, without abatement, over almost every part of the town. t T h l e i e ti(o. l 4w m ete m irn h te e sl a r e s s:e t i l st m it t s la: to e ,be d t4 a )f i et l y ahreei n , n t 1 : 1 :: : :: hi l tu melancholy proof of the o a f re fil: p a p n y d to den b s ea o r, f will not be checked is t w a r g e ion, , that has been nursed I . n tp.)ti t it h t es iimt e ed.o a w bo ili d: e h titi o li w nPg e r v °i e gn i, en" t ie h d a fio t atr t ‘ P 'i te Yh b bne es g.d i" ) ; l : r i e te i°'toi Sick Society are promoting a system of cleanliness, in causing the houses of those infected to be thoroughly cleaned in avers part. Were pyrolignions acid intro duced to the houses of those suffering from the fiver, we haVe no doubt it would tend greatly, if not to lessen its virulence, at least to prevent the contagion from gaining ground.—Ediaturyh Negrajou Cvarant, WINTER ASSIZBL KINGSTON, Dtcznisen 20. THE Fncw" Makuiss.--=Yesterday evening, abeut seven o'clock, the Grand Jury ignored •the bilis.of . indictment agstot • William Pare and Mary lyres, at principal and &actuary spectively, for the wilful murder of John Akehurst and Elizabeth Haynes, at Fetcham. This finding will, of course, not prirent the investigation of this transition at some future period, should time develop strontet evidence against the parties suspected , •Tlit interest excited in the County upon the subject of this easels is conceivable. . . , - Esther M'Donald was indicted for_ stealing, in the dwelling ;house of Joseph Nesthorpe, in the parish of St. George, South. wark, three five pound notes, thirty-two sovereigns, and six pounds in silver monies, his property. The prisoner put in a written statement, drawn up with gust judgment, in which she positively stated that the. prosecutor had attempted to take liberties with her ; that she. resisted„ ilaVini threateoed to proceed against him, he gave her the money ill question to avoid the exposure to which such's proceeding Wo uld subject him. She was a waive of Ireland, of respectable co flexions in Dublin, but disliking dependence on her relations, As came over to this country, and had lived in several respectable families. Mr. Justice liivLye carefitili summed up the whole of the evidence, pointing out to the Jury the importance of the case in its consequences to the prisoner. He adverted' to the serious st= tack upon the character of the prosecutor, and left them to .1 0 4 1 , of the probability of its truth,.after his solemn denial on oat h, 504 the singularity of the fact, that, until the present moment, the prisoner had never made any suggestion of the kind. Guilty.-- Judgment of Death was recorded. (Before Mr. Justice GASILLI.) Solomon Aslett alias Charks Clanks, wss indicted for steal ing, at Farnham, on the 10th of August, a flock of sheep ! 0 7 . 13 number, the property of Edward Cobden. Mr. Peonger c °ll. ducted the prosecution. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty!---Senteni.e of death ars e passed upon him, and no hopes of mercy, were helil out. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY, Patna!, Dec. 22. (At the Court of Comaiisaioners.) Armstrong, W., Great Queen-street, auctioneer—l ... - Aveling, J., Great Charlotte -street, grocer-10 Badnall, R. jun., Queen -street, dealer and chapniaa-1 0 Baldwin, J., Chobham, Surrey, butcher-11 Beckley, J.,. Old Fish -street, wine-merchant-1 Biggs, .1., Lewisham, builder-4 Blagg, E., Yarmouth, grocer-10 Bonifield, W., Gutter-lane, warehouseman-12 Burnett, F., Strand, chemist-41 Burrell, J., Homerton, brewer-1 Chapman, W., St. Neots, currier—ll Children, G., Tonbridp, banker-12 Duncan, IL, Portsmouth, surgeon_ll Fox, G., Sunderland, grocer-10 Godwin, W., Strand, bookseller-11 Hatfield, J.. Cambridge, linen-draper-12 Heath, T., New-street-square, victualler-11 Horn, C., Judd-street, music-seller-1 Jacob, J., Deptford, coal-merchant—It) Jarvis, 3., Bromptan, tailor-12 Jones, M., London-road, upholaterer—l* Kerridge, G., Beetles, grocer-12 , . Leader, W., Oxford-street, coach-maker.--l 0 Line, W., Camden Town, builder-10 Linsell, NV., Sun-street, linen-draper--II Moore, T., Sunderland, grocer-11 Oliver, J., Cambridge, jeweller-11 Reynard, R., Nov Bond-street, tailor—l 0 Ryder, W., Norton Falgate, tailor—l 1 Schlesinger, M. S., Upper Stamford-etteet,niervhant--- 10 Shaw and Alexander, Clifton -street, merchants-11 Simonds, J., Tottenham, stock broker—ll Skinner, W., Hatton-garden, apothecary-11 Stangroom, R., Percival -street, plumber-11 Strutton, W., Commercial-road, timber inerchant--- 10 Sutton, W., Beaumont -street, coach maker-1 1 Sutton, G., Southwark-bridge-road, builder- 10 Thompson, M., Minories, wine merchant- 1 Vining, J., Pall-mall, jeweller--10 Warner, H., Lamb's Conduit-street, linen tirgP" —* Wasbrough, M., Brydges-street, stationer—T.l 'White, J., Fleit-street, baker-11 trc hantr—V bolt and Wilkinson and Co., King's Arttmls" - ' Win , Williams, M., ukya, L Tring, Hero, ba ilder--t gob stationeri-12 Winstanley and Hudson, Manebester, futon --l• Worthen], J. and F., Oxford-street, linen d raper-°'l _ Wroots, R., Great Titchrield-street, linen d is, COUNTRY DIARY, SAT I - 14 7 Annett, T., Alainouth—White Swan, A n B r i t tol-1 Chubb, W., Bristol—Commercial rooms , Close and Co., Blanchester —Star, Man _ el Bath—l 2 Coombs, S., She top Mallett— Angel, tree", Norwich_4, Harvey and Hill, Alburgh—Bowlia --"bury- 11 ,„ St. p s ol's Church-y Jones, T., Shrewsbury---Cole , M a nchillter'""*" . Shaw and Bateman, Mancbester—St ar, Tate, J., Blanchester—Star, Mukovri;lo Wakeford and Co., Andover —Star and tiraur ~ rlvd:arwujeer no:0f°1------ ----.—...... The arriLviatt:oßt PAL 11ARKET.—Dec. #O. ii. d. 1 Wallbottle.......—il 0 W.'r. 1410e11:4 ..?, l i 0 6 % 1: g i ..... : E. I. 3 7: l o emn i A ps : s u o__ n K : . : :3 34 4 l :6 1 ......... 1 1 r u lsr: s0 1; , " ----77 ,... . ._7 6 ;_ d. : Id ~ Tark wymin..*.......... field Moor--.. 3 3 9 0 6 0 %%:.. .. Clisorwla 1 C , 0 .. • i 0: W. E. Hilda —.— :It 6 TantleldTraaer.-" W. E. Hotspur ...SO 6 Heston Emile 16 a W. E. Pastels—. 3# 6 W. E. ews t2 t ••• rate, b u t t h e t ra nsactions have been limited. The Corn Its I t i n a w n n , i g i ne m. i t e i ; nu " g t t4"- ay, -711114,insivie.e:atb"Ilibi.co;:t :I::.'id:s..' 2d• per 101 b. lower. Fine Oats, being scarce, obtained lor 4 much., Flouri•napeyl.rn4wd:alsbh.,P,fres twbrohliulegibaitinifY:lio.irttotioutdrrtaL' • scarce _heuaril:dlegibwi:e.:":l"l:-,. forward under the shot Pr ic°l " ' , .. 1 .-40100 1 ' 0 10. to 2s. per sack, and Aeon* i • r .„,.._d r a Wheat . Other articles dull at last week's quotastions. P;ins, lain good demand, but sales are triliinir, behlerl . M eet M u ller barr el ' op. A I, d• s. Cl. se li 810 a 9 9 •11 9 4 ,i BOs 9 9 ' OOs : ; ava # 6 7 6 3 8 4 s alp Ooao° .0,,` 5 6 3 0 : 8 5 8 9 '0 - 0 a 1 0 1 3 : 00313 9, 8 ,, i t :0 0 3 a . '' 4 s 4 -9 0: a : 0 0° : 03 4 g . o g i " o ti , It 0 U a 64 ..0 ' A 0 A 0 6 41 0s 69 v 0 0 0 06 ' 8 40,0 0 00.00 , 0 ,04 O 0 aU .0 8 0 0 6 34 0a36 0 ° A 0, AO 46 Oa 48 0 ° A '; 0 - 8 , 44 0a a 0 .-: 3. 4 s .0 4. 0 a --. , • AA ... 4d 0a 4# 0 r i ~,,w „ J o 0 ..- 0a -- 0 .. -- 40 0 ......02,... 0 la ",,,,, • Week ending Deg; Uk ti i il I flont. . j ?OW Flour. 0a _,. __ n o Qrs. sacks,' Moo!, Poo 601 12±,...,:toitzele s. d. 8eaurn05t.......... 22 6 Burdon u 6 Dean's Primrose 30 0 Felling Main if oly well 92 0 Liddell's 0 Ord's Redliugh 29 0 Petry 29 0 Snips at Market. Wheat, English, per Scotch •••••••100.01.1100.7........* ; ---- Irish - Ditto (white - Foreign (tree) ----- Foreign tin WIMP •P11V.10.14.1.0 1 1.11 - Canada (Ave) Oats, English and Scotch - ri srt Harley, Malting, per Imp. Grinding, per GOlbs. Deans, F.nglish, per Imp. qr. - Irish Foreign.-- Flour, Amer.. sweet. (bond), per tel sour ditto, tree fine. per *nibs. Irish, ditto Oatmeal, E;lgilsh, per :JOWL _ Malt, per Imp. touter Pease, English white, per Imp. qr.*. li ye . IMPOST' OF C Wheat( Oats. 1831.117. f 1 1 ,1 1 4 Q ,g9 . I t I 3a4ni for the Rye. 1 Hens. Qrs,. 1., wiilirw D it. O .ki n ti t a te ni t f: f tli s i vo ns n t : , w a t t , i C: hi zs l i , l i e r i :Cu T iv il ed it:ige ouly it: f t e i w n e t : ol l% l ::::: • MARRIED._:. L . go. On the 20th inst., at AU Sours, Lanham place bY P'` t .„), Charles Henry Cox, A.M. , stude nt of Christ Church, 01 r ':l'ot John Brown Nastnyth, Fag., to Louisa Sarah Msenatnall, daughter of Richard Cox, Eaq., of Oakley House, Berkt On the Itith inst., at Afaryletione Church, by the z 1 ,, e ,, h ,' Spry, Henry, third son of lklathew Montague, EN , ' ug gm House, l'ortsnan-square, Captain in the 3d Guards, tadaug b."`'; dalen, widow of the late Fr ederick Croft, Esq., West te' of Lieut.-Colonel Huxley. DIED. On the fli G Ist inst., Mr. T. Willoughby, of Houey-lant-"131 Cheapdtle. On the 19th inst., Mr. Sam uel Ilawksworth, of St. 04W * agetll9, l 4,00 row, Che o r Hi tc h i n, H er t s.. in hei3O=2elmemne=wwm7megeOn the 17th h /ki" the relict oltf tile ate Joh Printed and Published by M. YOUNG, tilt Sum-With SO, Wei SISANP.